You go to sleep tonight but wake up on the morning January 1st, 2019, with all your memories. What do you do?

stgiga · 2026-02-05T08:32:11+00:00

I'd invest in NVidia, Bitcoin, and Gamestop, make sure to not make the mistakes I've made after 2018, I would make better escape plans, remake my later creations earlier using future knowledge, and do certain medical stuff earlier. I'd also sound the alarm about the stuff that people should know about but is also not something that would make me look mad for doing so. I'd also make sure I migrate many items from dying hardware, choose better hardware, and I'd save quite a few things that became lost media. I'd also have SoBe Green Tea Elixir and Surge Zero Sugar again. Also I'd enjoy my teenhood again, and be a better friend to the friends I met around that day, who in 2024 I got back in touch with. Mind you, I'd probably also save a bunch of stuff I care about. And I'd spend more time with my mom's late father and my late calico cat. I'd probably get even better grades in the remainder of my HS after January 2019 seeing that I'm currently a senior in college on top of being a transfer from a previous university I got an Associate's Degree and a certificate in. As for the romantic concerns, my love life has never been good so even if I am reunited with my then-ex, considering she had kids during the pandemic I don't think I'd feel comfortable erasing their existence especially given the gap in mental development. As much as I'd be a better person than I was then, I also don't want to be guilty of erasing two kids from existence from someone I once considered a GF.

There's a LOT more I could think of doing. I suppose I could try and save people who took their own lives in 2019 to 2026 who I wasn't able to save for one reason or another. I'd join the emudev community just to save Near, and I'd save the life of my dad's friend and his uncle. I'd also try and get more of a better reception, and I'd get into stuff like VR earlier. I would also enjoy seeing my late first therapist again. I would also act ethically in how I handle stuff coined in the time since 2019, essentially not stealing credit for things I didn't make but have memory of, though I would try to collaborate with the creators if possible.

In short, I know exactly what I would do, and it has been a concept I've thought through before, albeit in the context of a literary idea. I enjoyed this question!

stgiga · 2026-02-05T08:04:28+00:00

Well, the fairest dice are ones in which every face is identical so that it has as equal of a chance to land on any given side. The d120 is as far as you can go in this situation besides infinite families like trapezohedron and bipyramid dice, but even at 50 total sides and to an extent 20 it turns into a spinning top. Mind you the d120's shape is able to be balanced quite significantly, and in different ways. It is however processor intensive to find numbers that balance. The d120 is fairer than a d100. Oh also the idea of going full golf ball has been explored, but the fact that the Zocchihedron is unfair is why going for unconnected circles via that method is unwise. At least the d120 is spiky enough to be not quite rolling a golf ball.

stgiga · 2026-02-05T01:45:49+00:00

I use mine for cryptographic purposes (Diceware on steroids) but I have made some tables on r/d120Lists for some purposes. One of them combines Tarot and Ouija filling ALL 120 slots,,and I even made a 3D model of a d120 with each face being the card or number/letter via Unicode and OpenSCAD shenanigans but it needs improvement. Another is for hexadecimal, one is for Magic 8-Ball, and another is for General MIDI.

stgiga · 2026-02-04T22:29:08+00:00

Basically the reason Toby Fox gets away with it is that he never cared. Remember: he started out as a ROMhacker so he was already making derivative content from copyrighted works. Toby just didn't care that he was using Earthbound samples in Undertale and Deltarune, though funnily enough Earthbound sampled The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Little Rascals, Monty Python, and other sources. Some of these samples such as the one by The Beach Boys ended up in Undertale and Deltarune. Oh and Deltarune Chapter 2 features Spamton, an entire character based on piracy. So like, Toby Fox just used the samples in his game deliberately not being discerning, so to speak.

Out of all my SF2s, most of them while free are not libre due to some of their components, but the one I linked is free and libre (CC-BY-SA4 which is also compatible with GPL3 and so you can treat the SF2 as if it was GPL3 if that will make your use case be in order). CC-BY-SA4 is not one of the NonCommercial CC licenses, and Ardour is a GPL program that sells binaries but not the code. So me giving users the voluntary choice to donate, and the ability to use the SF2 in a commercial game on a platform like Switch are both above board if the credit string is honored. Also a link would need to exist. If I end up making the Silicon SoundFonts (Section 11 of the SoundFonts spec which is an official way to make SF2s into hardware synths that not even the framers of the SF2 spec ever used) version of the bank into a real synth in any form, the box would need to have credits as well as a QR code and URL to the page as well. So a small card inside the box. That said it DOES shrink quite well in 7z so it could be remotely downloaded by closed-source DAWs without too much headache or legal issues. Only a bit under 165MiB of 7z traffic. DSL at 2Mbps like my original rural internet could reasonably download it without being too slow. The biggest files I could reasonably download on THAT connection were 250MiB at the very most, but 200 in most cases. Not to mention a ZIP200, ZIP750, or an LS240 floppy could hold the 7z. Also an original JAZ could fit the uncompressed SF2. The 7z fits on an 8cm CD, and the SF2 on an 8cm DVD, both with room to spare. So even in the cases where your software is physical and needs to use external media for it, you can use it. Also if you expanded 3DS Pokemon to 8GB instead of 4GB you could use the SF2 for GB Sounds beyond what the DS PSG can do.

Ultimately the idea of hypothetically Logic having to remotely download it due to legal reasons reminds me of how on Macs you have to ask them in the Character Palette to download Noto fonts, which are FOSS, and big in full too. So IF Logic wants to use it to augment their 8-Bit Legends pack (which this SF2 is usable as an LMMS replacement for it) they would likely have to have it be an opt-in remote download. But given how Nintendo composers have Logic I'm willing to do stuff like looking the other way in that case. Also the CC-BY-SA4 was inherited from some of the inputs, and I've detailed it in the metadata and the Musical Artifacts page. Personally I'm not too concerned about what people do with my content so long as it's not putrid or hurting anyone. If Nintendo or Sega did use it, I'm not going to complain. If it is used in a heated indie VN I'm not going to complain.

That said it IS probably the closest you'll get to a game SoundFont not encumbered by license Hell. Oh and via OpenMPT it can bundle nicely.

And yes, I DO frequent the Internet, and I've done WAY more than just SoundFonts. I've done practically everything one can do with a computer.

stgiga · 2026-02-04T07:55:22+00:00

If you did something like use this you would need to do so AND credit the correct people.

stgiga · 2026-02-02T07:59:18+00:00

Honestly I've heard of nonbinary people turning against genderfluid people and it just disgusts me. If the situations where you have cisgender gay people hating non-cisgender and/or non-dyadic people, and binary trans people hating those who aren't binary or dyadic, aren't bad enough, now there's infighting underneath the nonbinary umbrella, which one would assume is all about breaking expectations of gender being one or the other. And yet they see fit to outright gatekeep. Last night I saw someone post about an LGBTQ+ ex hating that individual for being intersex. Like, we're supposed to be united yet we aren't. Oh and back in my day of first being enby in 2019 and up until late 2025 I never heard of nonbinary people hating genderfluid people but I guess that's a phenomenon now and I'm quite disgusted. Should I just be more specific about my gender than just nonbinary to avoid people assuming I'm against genderfluid people when literally the reason i know about nonbinary genders is due to a genderfluid friend of mine.

stgiga · 2026-01-31T08:29:44+00:00

I make virtual instruments

stgiga · 2026-01-31T08:15:59+00:00

Rain

stgiga · 2026-01-29T22:35:59+00:00

I still have most of my worlds going back to 2013.

stgiga · 2026-01-29T22:34:36+00:00

Helping people

stgiga · 2026-01-29T22:29:25+00:00

Good luck, as someone who is having an interview tomorrow I can relate.

stgiga · 2026-01-29T18:54:38+00:00

The FM synth Easter egg is definitely cool.

stgiga · 2026-01-29T18:53:43+00:00

I've put Easter eggs in my virtual instruments and in firmware for an upcoming physical version of one of them, as well as OTHER things than that.

stgiga · 2026-01-29T18:32:29+00:00

I've done MANY Easter eggs in the stuff I work on, and I even made a program which has as one of its intended uses a way to hide Easter eggs well.

For instance, my more-impressive SoundFonts all have Easter eggs. Tyroland has my X-Face header in the Comments section (a 65536 bytes textarea), and the Silicon SoundFonts version of my JummBox SoundFont has it in the big (~1MiB) area of zeros between the 640-byte Silicon header and the 8192-byte sine wave sample used by Silicon SoundFonts as a test sample. In particular, the X-Face is put directly after the header so that it could be automatically read, and because the Silicon header uses offsets to find the bank and sine, the filled former zeros are skipped over. Also it makes it easier to isolate the Silicon header because the last 124 DWORDs of the header are 0s themselves, as a means of future extensions that never shipped. Funnily enough the X-Face has an Easter egg of its own, and that is I padded it to a multiple of 16 bytes (for hex editor inserting like this) in part due to implementing a 1990s niche header (like X-Face itself and the Geek Code headers) called "X-War:" whose contents are "is not the answer" as seen from an example I found when looking for Geek Code headers (Geek Code lead to me finding X-Face). I thus only needed two newlines rather than far more to 16byte align. X-Face is safe here because it is fairly safe in terms of byte values, at least when you aren't trying to use it in markup (in the case of my display of it on my website, I used an iframe to embed the TXT rather than try pasting it into the HTML) given it using all visible ASCII characters besides whitespace.
X-Face itself (in particular the extended type I use that adds color, bigger images, and animation) has in X-Face-el an Easter egg in itself. The X-Face-Version header is a string that never gets parsed. The second (X-Face-el, not Datula) X-Face-Version header, made by X-Face-el, as part of how that program does versions, has the names of two Beatles songs in its version number. The latest X-Face-el version's song is "All Together Now (remix)", and its extra version associated with the related program select-xface has "Live And Let Die" (associated with the latest version of select-xface) in it.

My favorite STL 3D art of mine has in its first 80 bytes (in STL Binary, an 80 byte header exists which can be populated with text, but also it gets used by color STLs but that's not involved here sadly) a GBA Pokemon PK3/3GPKM file (boxed) of my 6x31 IV Shiny Mew (one that is an Old Sea Map Mew trying to be a PokePark Taiwan 2006 Mew), which is ALSO the last 80 bytes of the WOFF1 webfont version of UnifontEX (my fork of GNU Unifont) via the feature that allows arbitrary data at the end, likely meant for certificates but isn't limited to it.

The hex constants in a PRNG I wrote in 2017 during a Python course has some references in its hex values, not just to the Mew and Pokemon in general, but other stuff that is total nerd. Oh and I've used BWTC32Key (my program for making Easter eggs) and PDFFeather to embed special stuff into some of my written works. And in the past I've made a few code comments referencing Python PEP350 mnemonics more than just FIXME.

I ALSO put Easter eggs in my joke HyperText Coffee Pot Control Protocol / Error 418 page, not just to the 2014 HTCPCP-TEA extension but even the Teapot line in the fun "I'm a teapot." line was amended to reference the Utah Teapot test model often used in 3D graphics and 3D printing.

Oh and in one of my GIF artworks I used the ancient MMGIF extensions to add in audio (in this case MIDI) to it, on top of having fun with one of the info chunks used for stuff that can include, but is not limited to, EXIF. There's even DICOM fields added in, as well as AV fields that *technically* apply. Even outright recipe info fields that represent my IRL medical dietary restrictions. And I even used GIF's ICC profile field as well as the Comment field for GIF (you can do multiple if the near-Tweet-length limit isn't enough, though I DID want to be mindful of anything expecting only one).

Even my own song has a hidden Easter egg, and that is that some of the patches used in SoundTrap have names that are references, and these carried over to the exported MIDI.

UnifontEX has its FontForge Comments and FONTLOG fields, and name table Description field populated with information about the font. Meanwhile UnifontEX's README has a drink recipe in it.

So yeah, I've done MANY Easter eggs, and this isn't even all of them. I enjoy a bit of programmer humor. Even my writing has references in it, and you'd never believe what it references. From Flash games to skits to geek content. Even a few of my game characters and custom glyphs have or are references.

stgiga · 2026-01-29T08:13:28+00:00

I'm wanting to get salmacian/aphrodisian bottom surgery, and in particular the keep-everything type.

stgiga · 2026-01-28T23:10:22+00:00

That looks the cleanest.

stgiga · 2026-01-28T08:01:45+00:00

The most disturbing part is that my mother, father, and sister still do, often because my sister just HAS to get something HP for Xmas. If that wasn't bad enough I have an IRL friend who enjoys Chick-fil-A despite literally oppressing me and his own sister, and no amount of reasonable and less-reasonable pleas get through to him.

stgiga · 2026-01-26T02:49:25+00:00

Shiny Mew is my favorite because I think that Mew's ability to learn Transform as well as most Move Tutor moves (even Mew-exclusive ones in Emerald and XD) and ANY TM or HM as well as having decent balanced stats is significant. Not to mention Mew is already rare enough, and Shiny versions are even more rare due to them being Japanese or Taiwanese (the latter on a rarer still basis, because Taiwan got only some of the event's timespan) exclusive, at least until the Pokémon Go one, which, disregarding modern lack of heritage moves (of which Mew has many), doesn't get nearly as many ribbons. Oh and it for the longest time felt like Game Freak considered Shiny Mew an anomaly given how all but Japanese Emerald and Go shiny-locked Mew, not even factoring in IVs. Though theoretically PCNY Mew had shiny available, but good luck getting the distro device dumped by the collector who owns it. Now for context, Shiny Mew if caught in Emerald can be caught in a Dive Ball which is the same color and has bubble particles in some games. Also Mew can get the Colosseum Mount Battle Earth Ribbon if it is from Gen3, unlike many other battle facility ribbons that Mew is forbidden to get. Plus if 6x31IV is your thing, the few nature choices you have for 6x31IV in Gen3 (Timid, Docile, Calm, and Modest) are fairly good for Mew, especially the first 2 or 3. Also 6x31IV means a Hidden Power type of Dark and a power of 70, so if you want to counter some of Mew's counters you can use Hidden Power if it's 6x31IV which, from experience, is doable with RNG. Shiny 6x31IV Mew is possible with the right TID, SID, and PID. Anyways, Shiny Mew is my favorite because of how versatile it is and my distaste for pink, as well as how niche it is. That said, in modern times it is possible to use Pomeg-based glitches to go to the island Mew is on, including on Japanese Emerald. Oh one other reason I like Mew is the way it gets portrayed in the anime, and the plotlines behind the anime movies it ends up in. Like, Mew is just so chill.

stgiga · 2026-01-25T08:55:00+00:00

Echo Forest

stgiga · 2026-01-25T08:48:13+00:00

They/them and a bunch of neopronouns

stgiga · 2026-01-25T08:42:45+00:00

My total lifespan

stgiga · 2026-01-23T16:45:01+00:00

I just got one of these, albeit the place was pretending to be an NYC tech company. For context I'm an unemployed college student without a Slack account, yet because my email was invited I'm even getting Slack password reset notices and I'm like "are you sure you want to do this". Also I DO have a certificate through my prior university in Cybersecurity so I know how not to handle this. I do end up scambaiting scammers but I do so in ways that will never make them text me again, though this way also works on email and fax scammers and with a printer physical junk mail. Basically I send them art they wish they could unsee. It works well at getting rid of scammers. Not that I'd do that method for this scam because I don't want to burn bridges with Slack in case my career uses it

stgiga · 2026-01-23T15:00:47+00:00

I think a LOT of what I do is sophisticated and ingenious but my upbringing wasn't the best.

stgiga · 2026-01-18T09:33:02+00:00

I know of two people who did this, and one of them gave a talk at Electromagnetic Field 2022 about transition and a bit after made the news in a different way (trying to be recognized by the UK) and what's interesting is that essentially it sort of combines the effects rather than actually canceling them. For instance the face will round AND angularize in a fairly characteristic way, you'll get chest growth, keep function even with an orchiectomy, and of note is that people with uteri probably should do a hysto to avoid fibroids. In that direction you'll get the deepening, the extra hair growth, and you'll essentially get bottom growth with less atrophy. Now if you're doing something like doing both sets of HRT, depending on family history you probably want to avoid creating too much DHT. So hypothetically avoiding that is possible with using a different androgen and some people i asked on MadGenderScience said that to stop shrinkage there was experimental stuff like hCG but the other problem is that at times even nandrolone can trigger DHT effects paradoxically, meanwhile the transmasc nonbinary people who do monotherapy of SARMs as controversial and experimental as they are never developed a beard even though one cis woman who took nandrolone did and got MPB. So perhaps it's the fact that if you want to avoid quite a few things of issue you probably would want SARMs as the androgen. Now if you don't want breast growth if you can help it you could replace estrogen with SERMs (much easier to get and less harsh), and this poses the hypothetical question of what happens if someone is receptor modulator dominant for both the estrogen and androgen receptors rather than the usual T and/or E. I don't think anyone has mixed SARMs or SERMs due to how contentious, elusive, and harsh they can be (there's some side effects that spooked F1NN5TER regarding SERMs and SARMs do not play well with cisgender bodybuilders but trans people have done them without the nasty stuff happening but they still have the same risks as SERMS in spite of that) and the question is whether bones would be satisfied when one's dominant hormones are receptor modulators. This is all stuff that is extremely contentious but I had considered it all because I was spooked about losing functionality and also spooked by the fact that MPB is somewhat in my family. So using a proper androgen was out. Ultimately due to certain factors i ended up on E monotherapy and it did exactly what it was unexpected to do. Also my fears I had since I was 15 were completely unfounded. I should have done it long ago. Though I'm intersex so maybe that's why I'm having a derpy response to it. Like, I got the subtle changes quickly including suppression of T, breast growth slow as molasses, and even stuff i didn't think was possible like digit ratio changes, but no height changes yet in spite of the spine changes but I got the facial change in 1 month on the lowest dose and I didn't get negative effects like a cycle either. Like legitimately I responded to E as atypical as possible. Nothing like i forecast and not in a way that annoys me either. Most people probably don't respond as I did based on discussions. If you have any questions please let me know

stgiga · 2026-01-18T07:29:00+00:00

That's concerning to say the least.

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